Self-taught artist, Michael Treanor, has become a very accomplished watercolourist and his work is appearing in more and more places. He has quite a few in the Freshwater Gallery at the Albert Dock and he was there demonstrating his skills at the launch event last week.
Freshwater is near the Tate and has been there for a couple of years, originally trading under a different name before going independent last year and this is the first of a series of regular exhibitions featuring local artists.
As well as a variety of original works, they sell prints, cards and other arts and crafts items.
http://www.michaeltreanorwatercolours.co.uk/
http://www.thefreshwatergallery.com/
I’m sure this exhibition is finished now, which is a shame because it was very good as well as being a very worthwhile and interesting project.
The photographs and performance were by a group of over 20 homeless people, many of whom you may have seen sitting on the steps or in the gardens around St Luke’s church. They worked with Urban Strawberry Lunch and the photography group Fab Collective and it seems all parties got a lot out of the project.
We certainly enjoyed the show, some amazing pictures and music. Please read the full details on the fab collective website
While the Fab Collective’s exhibition Up to something was at St Luke’s last summer we spent a lot of time with members of the local homeless population. So when our hosts at St Luke’s, Urban Strawberry Lunch, asked us to help out with the Hollywood Homeless project we jumped at the chance.
Hollywood Homeless is a music and photography project made possible by the Employable Communities Fund. For the photography side of the project, members of the Fab Collective have worked with and mentored project participants. A selection of photographs taken by the homeless participants were exhibited at St Luke’s (the ‘bombed out church’) from 6th to 13th March. If you missed the exhibition you can still see the photos on Flickr.
This interesting exhibition about the Mersey Coastal area ends this week, it’s well worth a look. Some of the facts which are presented in various media are quite fascinating.
Mersey Basin an Exhibition
at The Art and Design Academy, Liverpool John Moores University
1 – 19 March 2010
A cross-disciplinary exhibition bringing together newly commissioned work by 11 UK-based artists – exploring the themes of rising sea level and flooding from a regional perspective, in the broader context of climate change. This exhibition is presented by High Tide.
Aesthetic environmental activism
Sci-art collaborations
Grass roots engagement
Visualised ecological futures
Artists: Àgata Alcañiz , James Brady, Stuart Carter, David Haley, Gordon MacLellan, Jacqueline McCormick, Janette Porter, Tim Pugh, Scott Thurston, Elizabeth Willow, Robyn Woolston
For full details visit the website: http://www.hightideuk.org/
Jazamin Sinclair
karen & jazamin duo exhibition
at Eggspace
11 February – 7 March 2010
Duo exhibition by Karen Henley & Jazamin Sinclair curated by headspace.
Taking a break from the usual large group shows, the Headspace curators themselves (Karen and Jazamin) have put together a good exhibition of their own work.
They both work in various media including photography and drawing as well as painting. Jazamin’s striking abstracts and Karen’s simple, colourful and quite humorous paintings are always popular.
There’s also some life drawings and Karen’s ‘Canibal-Vegetarian Series’ is interesting.
Karen Henley
Sonia Boyce - Like Love Part One
I thought I had reviewed this ages ago! Now I realise I got as far as preparing the pictures and forgot the rest. Its a good thoughtful show and again the Bluecoat have managed to put on an exhibition on serious issues without it being too dry or neglecting the overall look and feel.
Starting on the first floor is Part One which features works inspired by a residency at the Merton School for Young Parents in Bristol in 2006-7. The artworks address fragmentary experience of longing, and raise questions about due care and contemporary life. I like the way some of the messages are really bold whilst others are very subtle, you have to look really close to notice the text in some of them.
Sonia Boyce. Like Love - Part Two
In the end room on the Ground floor is Part Two which was made in collaboration with Blue Room, the arts service for learning disabled adults based at the Bluecoat in partnership with Liverpool City Council. There are video interviews with some of the Blue Room Group alongside some of their artwork and a large video of them dancing on Crosby Beach which looks like it was great fun.
Boyce was also invited to curate the Bluecoat’s other gallery spaces in recognition and celebration of her first exhibition at the Bluecoat in 1985 and her inclusion in Tate Liverpool’s Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic exhibition, which opened at the same time as Like Love.
Continue reading ‘Sonia Boyce at the Bluecoat’
c. Frances Walden-Jones
Some nice landscapes of North Wales in the current exhibition at Gostins. Some quite impressionistic.
Themes of North Wales
5 February – 13 March 2010
Paintings by Frances Walden-Jones. Frances spent her childhood in North Wales, near Colwyn Bay, and in the 1950’s/60’s spent her Saturdays in the studio of Gladys Dawson R.A. (later Gladys Woodruff). After studying at Cardiff university, Frances spent her working life teaching drama. In her retirement Frances has taken up her paintbrushes again, resulting in these colourful paintings of North Wales.
Also on display are recent work by Colin Reid.
c. Colin Reid
Eimear Kavanagh, 'Holo', indian inks on paper
Fanchon Frohlich, etching
“Thinking Abstract”
6 February – 31 March 2010
at Gallery4allarts, Lark Lane
“Thinking Abstract”- a group show from artists working in a variety of abstract mediums such as: painting, etching, collage, mixed media, drawing and photography.
Exhibiting artists:
Andra, Richard Ashworth, Nicole Bartos, Fanchon Frohlich, Andor Komives, Jo Bywater, Eimear Kavanah, Adel Kiss, Mick Gill, Sue Ironfield, Emil Moritz, Nagachoo, Colin Serjent, Christine O’Reilly Wilson, Stanislaw Krakiewicz and others. Artists are generally based in the Merseyside area with the exception of the international guests: Nagachoo (Japan), Andra, Emil Moritz, Andor Komives (Romania), Adel Kiss (Hungary).
A fine selection of abstract works by a large group of artists curated by Nicole Bartos is on show in this gallery in the old police station on Lark Lane.
http://www.gallery4allarts.com/
Untitled - Mick Gill
Glass font sculpture by Colin Reid
Liverpool Cathedral hosts V & A sculpture
11th February – 31st May 2010
An optical glass font from the V&A, which incorporates the early Christian symbol of a fish, is now on display in the Lady Chapel of Liverpool Cathedral.
The work is by the contemporary sculptor Colin Reid, and is on loan to the Cathedral from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. It is at the Cathedral as part of the prize awarded to the Cathedral by ACE (Art and Christianity Enquiry) for the Tracey Emin neon, For You, above the Great West Doors, and was commissioned by ACE in 2004. It is supported on a wooden plinth designed by Jim Partridge.
The design of the font recalls the Greek word for fish, icthys, whose letters represent the words for ‘Jesus Christ God’s Son Saviour.’ The early Christians used the fish image to communicate their baptismal creed. It appears in the 1st century catacombs in Rome and still has a special significance for many Christians today.
Colin Reid wrote in 2004: “If I were to identify a single thread that runs through my work it would be the influence of nature. My current interest is in natural materials that have been worked by craftsmen’s hands in the past and are eroding and reverting to nature. The medieval stone carving high on Gloucester Cathedral is being restored and the stone-masons have erected scaffolding giving access to normally inaccessible stonework. This I have cast and used as the starting point for new works.”
The sculpture will join the Icons in Transformation exhibition, which features around 180 pieces of art and runs until March 18th.
Canon Anthony Hawley said, “Liverpool Cathedral is delighted to show this work, on its first visit to the North West, as part of the Cathedral’s mission to use the building to inform visitors and to encourage them to understand and learn about the challenge of the Christian faith.”
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